 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1871 - 444 pages
...number of petitions, \vitli the signatures, relating to every subject. 1 Adolphus, Hiet., i:. 143. but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . . Government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...or to any set of living men. These he does not derive from your pleasures ; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence,...serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. 3. My worthy colleague says his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence,...judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if lie sacrifices it to your opinion. My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours.... | |
 | George Shea - Founding Fathers of the United States - 1877 - 90 pages
...sentiment ; to have the determination of public questions follow, not precede, debate. This was the judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion." — Burke's Works, vol. 3, p. 232 ; his Speech on the Conclusion of the Poll (1774). way they spoke... | |
 | John Morley - 1879 - 242 pages
...enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. Your representative owes you, not his industry only,...sacrifices it to your opinion. " My worthy colleague says, hia will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent. If government were... | |
 | John Morley - Fiction - 1879 - 236 pages
...enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. Your representative owes you, not his industry only,...his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving yon, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. " My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient... | |
 | George Shea - Biography & Autobiography - 1880 - 516 pages
...sentiment ; to have the determination of public questions follow, not precede, debate. This was the judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion." — Burke's Works, vol. 3, p. 232 : his Speech on the Conclusion of the Poll (1774). way they spoke... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - Anecdotes - 1880 - 842 pages
...or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure ; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence,...of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . Authoritative instructions ; mandates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1880 - 436 pages
...or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure ; no, nor from the law and constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representativeowes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1880 - 858 pages
...and his conscience. " Your representative owes you not his industry only," he bravely said, " but hii ttending on all the ordinances of God : such are " The public worship of God : the min He declared Parliament was not a congress of amiuradora from hostile states with different ^wrests,... | |
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. 
